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Hitting the road

A record number of people are expected to travel “over the river and through the woods” this Thanksgiving to visit friends and family or simply to get away. AAA is projecting 81.8 million Americans will travel at least 50 miles from home over the Thanksgiving holiday period, which starts ...

South Strabane fire company recognized

The South Strabane Fire Department has become one of a small group of departments nationwide to be distinguished for its efforts to aid research into cancer rates among firefighters. The department announced Thursday that it had been named a “gold helmet department” through the National ...

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Herald-Standard All-Area Golf Teams

The individual postseason wasn’t kind to Belle Vernon’s Jordan Mocello, but the Leopard senior’s body of work was enough to earn the title as Player of the Year for the Herald-Standard All-Area Boys Golf Team. Although he wasn’t able to qualify for the state tournament after a ...

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Cal women roll past Wilmington to give Strom 300th career win

Kennedy Bankett scored a game-high 24 points as PennWest California rolled past host Wilmington, 79-58, in a women's basketball non-conference game Saturday to give Vulcans head coach Jess Strom her 300th victory. Cal gradually took control, leading 21-18, 42-33 and 66-44 at the quarter ...

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Defense wins championships

The cliché, “defense wins championships,” is one of the more overused phrases in sports, and there is no scientific evidence to prove a formidable defense leads to titles, but if validity is needed beyond a hypothesis, one can look to the 2025 version of the Pittsburgh Riverhounds ...

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OP-ED: A fact-based look at America’s violence problem

Every time a high-profile shooting makes headlines, America relives the same cycle: shock, outrage, and the inevitable chorus of demands to ban “assault weapons,” defund the police, blame political opponents, and spend more federal money in cities. But these slogans conceal more than they ...

Outdoors

Best and worst places to live

AccuWeather, the independent weather provider service, published an article last week showing the FEMA Risk Maps ranking every county in the United States for their susceptibility to natural disasters, including hurricanes, floods, droughts, winter storms, extreme heat and cold, high winds ...

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